 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1815 - 442 pages
...lime, whether freshly burnt or slacked, is mixed with any moist fibrous vegetable matter, there is a strong action between the lime and the vegetable...at the same time converted into carbonate of lime. Mild lime, powdered limestone, marles, or chalks, have no action of this kind upon vegetable matter;... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy, George Sinclair, John Russell Duke of Bedford - Agricultural chemistry - 1815 - 452 pages
...lime, whether freshly burnt or slacked, is mixed with any moist fibrous vegetable matter, there is a strong action between the lime and the vegetable...comparatively inert, nutritive ; and as charcoal and oxygene abound in all vegetable matters, it becomes at the same time converted into carbonate of lime.... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1815 - 438 pages
...lime, whether freshly burnt or slacked, is mixed with any moist fibrous vegetable matter, there is a strong action Between the lime and the vegetable matter, and: they form a kittd of compost together, of which a part is usually soluble in water. By this kind of operation lime... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 512 pages
...apart is usually soluble in water. B) this kmd of operation, lime renden matter, which was betöre comparatively inert, nutritive; and as charcoal and...at the same time converted into carbonate of lime. Mild lime, powdered limestone, marls, or chalks, have no action of this kind upon Tetretable matter... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 418 pages
...lime, whether freshly burnt or slacked, is mixed with any moist fibrous vegetable matter, there is a strong action between the lime and the vegetable matter, and they form a kind of compost together, oí which a part is usually soluble in water. B) this kind of operation, lime renders matter, which... | |
 | agriculture horticulture - 1823 - 434 pages
...that " when lime, whether freshly burnt or slacked, is mixed with any moist fibrous matter, there is a strong action between the lime and the vegetable...form a kind of compost together, of which, a part is soluble in water:"—that " by this kind of operation, lime renders matter which was before comparatively... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...lime, whether freshly burnt or slacked, is mixed with any moist fibrous vegetable matter, there is a strong action between the lime and the vegetable...at the same time converted into carbonate of lime. 2221. Mild lime, powdered limatone, marls, or chalks, have no action of this kind upon vegetable matter... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 620 pages
...lime, whether freshly burnt or slacked, is mixed with any moist, fibrous, vegetable matter, there is a strong action between the lime and the vegetable...and they form a kind of compost together, of which n part is usually soluble in water. By this means, matter which was, before, comparatively inert, becomes... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - Agriculture - 1830 - 614 pages
...orslacked, is mixed with any moist, fibrous, vegetable matter, there is a strong action between the lime and vegetable matter, and they form a kind of compost...at the same time converted into carbonate of lime. Mild lime, powdered limestone, maries or chalks, have no" action of this kind upon vegetable matter... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - Agriculture - 1830 - 594 pages
...any moist, fibrous, vegetable matter, there is a strong action between the lime and vegetable mailer, and they form a kind of compost together, of which...comparatively inert, nutritive ; and as charcoal and qxygen abound in all vegetable matters, il becomes, al the same time converted into carbonate of lime.... | |
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When lime, whether freshly burnt or slacked, is mixed with any moist fibrous vegetable matter, there is a strong action between the lime and the vegetable matter, and they form a kind of compost together, of which a part is usually soluble in water. By... 
